Deck 17: Hate Crime

Question 1

Which of the following is currently NOT one of the five monitored strands outlined in hate crime policy by the UK College of Policing?

A) Disability
B) Transgender
C) Homelessness
D) Religion

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which of the following is currently the most commonly monitored identity in relation to hate crimes?

A) Race/ethnicity
B) Sexual Orientation
C) Gender
D) Religion

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which of the following is NOT a criticism of conventional hate crime policy?

A) It does not often take intersectional identities into account
B) Its existence acknowledges the additional harm caused by hate offences
C) It has not yet effectively kept up with the potential of cyberhate crime
D) It is often exclusive

Answer 3

B

Question 4

According to McDevitt et al's (2002) study, which of the following is NOT a hate crime perpetrator typology?

A) Mission offenders
B) Thrill offenders
C) Defensive offenders
D) Offensive offenders

Question 5

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a 'defensive offender'?

A) Perceive victim as belonging to a group that poses an economic, social or cultural threat
B) Commit hate crime to 'protect' their neighbourhood/country from perceived intruders
C) Commit hate crime for an exciting experience
D) Commonly teenagers or young males

Question 6

Which of the following best describes a 'mission offender'?

A) Someone who commits a hate crime as a response to an event that they perceive the victim's community to have been responsible for
B) A far-right sympathiser who commits hate crimes to prove a point or exterminate groups deemed evil/inferior
C) An individual committing a hate crime in the name of 'protecting' their neighbourhood from those they perceive as a threat
D) A group committing hate crime due to underlying biases, for the thrill of committing the crime

Question 7

Which of the following, according to Hall (2013), is NOT a disadvantage of the use of imprisonment for hate crime perpetrators?

A) Prison has limited deterrent value to these offenders
B) Overcrowded prison environments offer little opportunity for rehabilitation necessary to address prejudicial beliefs
C) Prisons are often divided along the lines of race/religious affiliation and may reinforce intolerant attitudes
D) Prison sentences keep offenders separate from the groups they hold prejudice against

Question 8

Which of the following terms are typically used in definitions of a hate crime?

A) 'hostility' and 'hate'
B) 'hate', 'hostility' and 'bias'
C) 'prejudice', 'bias' and 'targeted hostility'
D) 'hate' and 'prejudice'

Question 9

Which of the following is NOT a typical criticism of hate crime scholarship/research?

A) There is too much research on hate crime
B) It often underplays, the differences in experiences and needs between victims and groups
C) It excludes many other groups that can be victims of prejudice based crime
D) It can be simplistic and fail to take intersectionality into account

Question 10

Which of the following is NOT a feature of Perry's (2001) hate crime framework?

A) Acknowledges the role of outward hatred by the offender towards the victim group(s)
B) Gives primacy to the idea that violence is different when motivated by bigotry and directed towards already marginalised populations
C) Acknowledges the complexity of hate crime victimisation by highlighting the relationship between structural hierarchies, institutionalised prejudice and acts of hate
D) Places emphasis on the group instead of the victim's individual identity